Mehmet Oz floats bizarre idea to force veterans into private health insurance exchanges

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, gave a confusing response about veterans' health care during an interview with a Pittsburgh radio station last week.

The station 90.5 WESA asked Oz about the PACT Act, which expands health care coverage for veterans exposed to toxins in the course of their service. The interview took place a few hours before recalcitrant Senate Republicans finally agreed to support the legislation.

Oz called for the bill's passage and said he believed that veterans should be enrolled in the same insurance system that members of Congress receive from the Affordable Care Act's private health insurance exchanges.

"I actually think they should get the same insurance I get if I'm serving in the U.S. Senate," Oz said. "They've done everything you could ask an American to do, and they've already paid their fee and they're not getting what's deserved of them — in this case, health care access."

https://americanindependent.com/mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-senate-veterans-health-care-2022-election/

Article is a couple weeks old. Doesn't appear to have been posted on DU however.

[jimfields33]

1. Already have it, it's called tricare.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. Yep,

and I'm satisfied with it.

Dr. Oz did serve in the military, but not the US Military, he served in the Turkish Army.

[jimfields33]

4. It shows. Lol.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Not so wierd. The VA already has Community Care teams that arrange health care ouitside of VA...

facilities. It's a newish program and doesn't have enough outside facilities lined up, but it seems promising.

[obamanut2012]

5. They already have that -- it's called Tricare